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A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.

In the Old West, Ben Thompson, a brutal gunslinger, is known as the "Messenger of Death," and everyone he encounters is doomed. Ben spends the night with former girl friend Nora Miller, but she orders him out of the house the next morning when her husband, Dave, returns. Shortly after Ben leaves, the couple is slaughtered and scalped by a band of Yaquis led by the ruthless Satago, who had previously murdered Ben's wife. Satago is supplied with weapons by two murderous renegades, Clay Bates and Horace Wiggins. Clay rapes and kills Little Fawn, wife of Satago's half-brother Joe Lightfoot, after Satago had captured her, tied her up, tortured her, and left her in the desert to die. Meanwhile, Satago and his men overtake a wagon train in the prairie and attack its occupants--Kansas Kelly, one of the West's most notorious madams; Althea Richards and Lavina Wade, two prostitutes; Boone Hawkins, a lecherous preacher; and Jim Wade, a conniving gambler. Joined by Ben and Joe Lightfoot, the group bands together to battle the attacking Yaquis. Clay and Horace arrive at the camp and tell Joe about the vicious slaying of his wife. Joe then pursues Clay on horseback into the desert, apprehends him, and stakes him out on an anthill. Joe is then besieged by the Yaquis and left wounded and near death. Before dying, however, Joe manages to kill Clay. As the battle rages on, the members of the doomed camp are killed one by one until only Ben and Satago remain alive. Finally, in a violent fight in the rapids, Ben emerges the victor. His deadly mission accomplished, he once again rides off alone.